You are buying a house and the mortgage company offers to let you pay a point 1.0% of the total amount of the loan to reduce your APR from 6.39% to 5.39% on your $170,000 30-year mortgage with monthly payments. If you plan to be in the house for at least five years, should you do it? Be careful not to round any intermediate steps to less than a decimal place. The monthly mortgage payment at 6.39% APR is $1,070.00 (Round to the nearest cent).